Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.
An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.
Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.
Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.
Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause.
As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture; so doth the man become incorrigible who is settled and stiffened into vice.